Professor of Ophthalmology, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology (2014)

Medical training:

King’s College Hospital

Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London

Research interest / experience:

New treatments for retinal disease including diabetic retinopathy and genetic eye diseases such Retinitis Pigmentosa and Stargardt disease

Optimising the clinical care of patients with retinal disease

Establishing a molecular genetic diagnosis in the majority of patients with inherited eye disease, helping to improve counseling, advice on prognosis, identify patients with molecularly proven disease who may be eligible for current and future treatments

Identify patients/genetic subtypes and time-points, which may be most appropriate for treatments, and identify reliable and sensitive outcome measures

Assisting in the development of gene and stem celldirected therapies to either significantly slow/halt disease progression or ideally improve visual function